![]() ![]() The more things change, the more they remain the same. Before we started worrying about carbon dioxide, there was a concern about fossil fuels, but it concerned not carbon dioxide, but the fact that they were finite, whereas things that grow, if properly handled, were not. ![]() But it is striking to me that what was said about the ‘energy crisis’ then, and what is said about ‘climate change’ now, are strikingly similar. Jackson See Customer Reviews Select Format Hardcover 10.29 Paperback 7.89 - 18.21 MP3 CD - Select Condition Like New Unavailable Very Good Unavailable Good 8.29 Acceptable 7.89 New 18. Fracking has postponed that, but in the long run we will be, in my opinion, finding alternatives. ISBN: 0195049837 ISBN13: 9780195049831 Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States by Kenneth T. But Jackson could see the ultimate finitude of fossil fuels, and forecast that the suburban order would start to fade away because of it. By 1985 the abolition of price controls had made energy and at least gasoline quite abundant, and was actually pushing people to flee Houston, if you can imagine such a thing. Jackson writes in the shadow of the energy crisis of the 1970s, which was simultaneous with the Great Stagflation. ![]()
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